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[The HANDY BOY AT HOME BY CHARLES A. KINO, vncre NORNAL SCHOOL.PLVnOUTH.N.M.

Martha’s Graduation Present

ca." mit r.u. tunbk u*rUB'a biutbar. "IT* sot to *W« Mart/ a graduation pra^ntAf I'm thtnttnx a^otit It bat I harm t flortOafl »rt »hat lt*tl «>• rr« aarrd ap • dollar and I'm WU1in* to apood tho wholo of t* •• bat Oba-a hard to aalu «>• •»»» aha would Uho mo to maha thins for h*r. but I barant Oma. “Wall. - aald B1U. J-rta’o chtun. “jat'a no and watch tht I>ra»on* and tha Horr-.U pla y b ^' ba thlr.kln* about Martha a

tor graduation, and aba waa to gat praaanta from ao man/ undco. aunta and coualna—but aha didn’t graduate Eh. got ao narroua dur-

arrUilng aha arar knaw. So tharo

>—.r -graaib aran for that ’ o. it lant,“ aald rata. “It Ign^t too grand for /ou. and If P»» don’t aar it often I wont Ilka U h bit." Wall. Martha waa rarr good naturad and allppad tha ring on bar

. Tha

raptlod Fata. a» tha two alartad off lor tha rarant lot ntarbj whara

iha ganta waa Juat b* /Inning. It waa not a »air good gama Homau play ad rary b^Ty. t« If tbay arar Ut a ball It wa p «ra lack and tbalr pt'chan

Ukt gUla Tha Dragcna bardl/ trt^d « nil. but thay bo^ Ut.m ail Ua tlma. lata and BUI laughad a"

Brat, than tMy got Urad

log aach a M

Fata waa raal tarry tar bar. “Marty." ba aald. “I know haw you f**l bacauar I'd tnora n Hkaly to do tha iwma thing. But narar infnd. I-Ujrtra you a graduaUon tut anyhow “ Than ha bo wad low and handad har tha ratrat bom Martha aramad to ba rary in*«h dallyhtad with har praoant. aapa dally wh.n aha Mamad that har broth ar had mada tha ring for har • promload to koap It always. •And waar lt.“ aald Fata. “1

with blua and rad Ughta.

auraly a grand ring.

Martha had to taka har aanlor

yaar crv.r again and thla tlma aba gradual ad. 3ha had not worn bar .

gradual ad. Hh«

ring at no* tha flrat day har brothor

had glran It to har.

raa all draaaad In I

raady to atari (or tha ball a lha graduation aaercf— to ba bald. Fate oama Into

_ Juat

w aa aU gotto, tbdg

ii^rd boraaa boot* and tba ruMbla

^l,a two frtaoda

ragoa and warn noon parchad coin- ■ rtabljr bahlnd raady for a rlda , .^un?town. For /ear. IbU wagon

■ ~ drlv.n t

aid baan drlvan by an old

man namad Ban who waa a frtand JJTaU tba boya Fata and BUI auppoawl that ba bad hoM ot Ul * r * U “ now. But Inataod a naw tnao waa

driving. Whan h. atoPP^l

rubblah at tha naat houaa ana am

ERE ara th. famoua thraa

looking for light upon

tbalr parplaslty. Tba projact may ba mada by oUth grada U>» trough It may ba welt to Mka th. candloBllck ahBft In dn. Bialghl cylinder If It aaama that th. form tuggnMed Mill takh too much Uma. If the ahgR U mada u ehown tha bole for tba candle mutt ba made before the top piece at cap la shaped and fastened on

wood may ba split. Evan

thtn

d In

(Tiring tbs brads Tha project should ba made 01 soft wood, the haam of ** thraa ply wood •" Minted In colon to suit. klaka (ba abaft and bottom; laaitn tha former together urlth

glue and brada and th# tba abaft temporarily with a 1H* IP acr.w as at a. Draw lha aquaraa and maka tba big bear i.eat tba mlddl* alas bear with %' squares and last tba Uttia bear with eguaras 0 tha bean Imre a W' do*' lag and oh tba bind foot, ■a ara to enter tha bolaa In tha •baft at b and tha bolaa In tha at c. Tba dowels muet ba glued In tha shaft rtrat. entering tha foot dowels Into the holes baas temporarily until tho glue baa harden ad, wbaa tha bane may !.e rrmorod carefully, glue put In the holes e and than fastened permanently to tha abaft and tba bears

EVENING SOUNDS

^^HEN ttyt light of day g»ow»

Robin imp hh evening hymn. Oh. so sad sbd ivaart that I Sotnetune*. listening, almost cry. Hare you heard him? From a tree Log he poun his melody. Tai the purple b the west Fades, and then he goes to rest

After I can scarcely see Which it shadow, wtkh is tree. Overhand and by my tide Something darts in circles wide; Squeaking thro its little nose Round and round the house it goes. Anyone would guess that, that, most be a hat.

a- to my bouaa.“

rubbUb at tha neat

yallad at tham and sent mam

•currying off. “Lat a go o

^Tba” way lay along tba roWa taken by tha trnah wagon. • —

a way strewn with psparaj

ot traab, for tba new

csraleaa. Buddanly

Wte atepp^ and Picked up aoms

thing off tb# road. -jt looks Uka a exclaimed. "I know give ms rn ■

what to

^ < _ for Bar.” gUsv' aald BUI. "Tou taM

your «a».r «'1n’l cheap J * 1 ^« 'laa tt aparklar' ertad Pote. -It may b* ‘“W ^ '

sa pretty aa any diamond

•Bill asked aeornfully how nw friend wna going to maka a rtcff.

pata replied

All during tba aaertfae. Martha wore tba brilllanl ring, and did not try to bide It uacausa aha knaw bar brother would tba drla anickerad at tt. Bha had a piece to apeak and more than om attracted by tba blase of tba atone

▲norwards aa aha Joined family In tba doorway, a

•poke ta bar.

’That la a rary magnlficnt atone

yoi bare than, young lady, said. Take ears of It."

Martha looked down ai bar rlag and hurried to tell her father wbai tha man had aald. Than, of course. Fata told how ba bad found tha stoba thinking It Wba fbat a bit of

They tell i

So wtmdarful.

heat and atones strange and b

of cotteee. I know thay never could be true. "Wo meat try to Bod tha owner. WW aU tfie lamres am e«t

They did not Ond tha owner The | My book, and I go down the road and m*k the eooJeffMmcte •;on« had bam lost for over . ytai ' To spend a happy afternoon till hours of niaahise fade,

true diamond, and

It proved to b

Martha i

you a

i the moat excited girl

Kovr 1 realty can't wear It,” exclaimed “it la too grand.” ■'Mat for you.” aald Fata, iabt I'd found tan of tham to Aha into rings for you.” “Don't you want It ba.kr* au

Martha.

Tm no Injun giver!' Fata

i— “r;;" Do You Know? left tha neat, and ara Boding their --

groceries, tha cowblrd stays on. and raises a tarribla fuasjfj

Whan he told Bill anont thi teas turning out to ba a raal die aond. Bllra eyas certainly grow

thin

which he would

slilo*" uy*Bnd fix Into a ring. BIV

ba could balp. a® (be twi

When the flowm softly fold Feul. white mod red and gold. Humming sleepily a bee Still u hunting swreb I see. Never thinkitig once of home, Ob end on perhaps he’ll roam TSl o'ertaken by the night. Have you heard his droning flight?

When the birds and bifeet b*ve

nxad UP into a mtla

workshop with » tabla an! tools ^ay msd. -vteW elng. hafor. they got a good on# and it »«» bard to maka tha diamond slick in Its salting, but at lent the ring was mada and placed In a velvet Uned

>x Bill’s mother gave him.

"1 think ft ought to ba from you too.” aald Fata, but BUI aald ha t

rather not because while

.. .—. - _,,n t,■ iltdn t twai

I

Leaving me alone at la»t. And there’s d.rVnew. not lung more. Mother’s voice thst I adore Gently calls me in to bed— She has seen tcy nodding head. That’s the sweetest evening sound When the night hat rolled around.

all right, sun hs dldn’

Uka giving h»- a graduation praa-

ghe might think I'm *y*^ on k.r” ha Bald, and Fa’s laughad.

ha IhM. and .

, Martha »#• a big amialbl.

girl of seventeen and not Ukaly to think such a thing Of Uttia boya of

1 puzzl^Corner.-

Jaa!" ha axclalmad. “If good thlBg 1 didn’t go in With you to gtva har that rtiml” Pete wanted to know why. “Don't you know that whan a fellah glvaa a girl a diamond that maaaa ho'a gotta marry her? Of'. That waa a narrow awsajMi" racUad

........

thta la taking place, tha cowwru luaflng around with tha cowa In ,h, paatnra. aatltet. go^plng. and haring a good Uma generally. Tha cowblrd la mighty careful to leave tu eggs to th# naata of birds aroall. er than heraalf. aa aba waa to* much of a coward to try and 1m pooe-on those of her own else tTher the young cowblrd did leave the neat, it showed no attachment or affection for the foMer molher Mho had don* ao much for tt. but It turned It# bark on har. and never

came near har again.

Pata laughad. hot BUI shook hta

head warn!ugly.

-Batter look out" ha ^ know what I’m talking about . I

It In b fhori* 1

Tho Junior Cook FKIZXLAD BEEF

ID you know that thera waa a bird In tha world actually too lacy to build any kind of a last for Ita eggs or babl—T thera U. and for want of a - name, people caU It a cow-

— walk'

We COWBIRD peering through tha buahea, Uka. It la arrange that the thief aha Is. tor aha steals tha' mother does “Ot aaam

To s

bird.

log along bahlnd cowa In the pasture. and feeding o:. tha Insects

that their hoofis fright.

Juat Uka It, waiting for acme on# „ help It gat Its dinner! It looks something Uka a blackbird, only It joea not draaa aa neatly, and wears ■u feathers aa If It did not much car# whathvr thay dropped out or not. It la a dirty, brownish-black, with a shorter bin than the blackbird. and with a rat resting foretisad that arguao UtUe for Its Intel-

llgaoce. and Ita anaaktng, manner prapai - —- ••

able ch a rad eristics

What would you think of a human mother who cared so IttU for bar baby that aha would be

* tor IU unlov*

labor of other birds, until she finds the neat of a sparrow with an agg

•topping Juat look enough

to Uy an egg. aha goes slinking away. She repeats thla eontemptl-

rmanoa until aha has dis-

posed of all har eggs Sometimes she has baan detected carrying an

har bill until aha finds a lo which aha can drop !«.

and gat out ot Bight before tha owner of tha neat aeea har. Now. lan’t that a mean, low-down trickt It certainly la. hut Uka acme people aha does not care how much trouble aha cauaaa other# Tha

cowblrd doe# not care what festbarad folks think of her.

whan one geu aa low-down aa that,

they are capable of doing anytl When tha young cowblrd

hatched. It proves to ba Juat Uka

Ita own mother, selfish, over-fe log and rude, and It pushes

dried beef.

Break Into tiny Mia.

MaU 1 tablaapoonfula of butter 1 in a trying pan. and whan It U hot |

drop In the beef.

Stir gantly and cook till tha biu I of meat are slightly crlap and a

notice the 1 *>">**■

difference lx else of th. cowblrd a Add I tablaapoonfuU fiemr and egg and her own. and that .he doa. iom about till li U all abaorbad. ot try to gat rid of It In tome A gg j cu pf u l of milk and aflr ray. at aha must know It ta not tl n iha mixture la thick and

era. If aba think* about It at all. cre amy.

lut ah* doea not aaain to know that ^ once on buttered toast

lean trick to being played on

bar, and gone rlghi caring for th* alien,

har own.

abbreviated Slate.

«. Curtail happy and

abbreviated Btata.

g Curtail to loiter and laave an

ABBREVIATED STATE* 1 Curtail to fra* and leave an 1 xhbraviaiad Blais. I Curtail peaceful and leave an |

• via led flute

I. Curtail a t-asa plai# and

save an abbreviated State

«. Curtail level and isav# an

— State-

Curtail an animal'# cry anB laava an abbreviated State. |. Curtail an Implement for cleaning floor* and leave i bravlalad blate

THIS HUNT wv vlAUTER

three-letter endless CHAIN Tha last latter of **oh wort forms th# firm letter of th* nax Flrat and last words era th

_ color. An animal. Happy. AfflrmaUva, Sorrowful. Aa animal • homa. A pinch. To placa. Also. An awkward tallow. A fra*- j

I feeding and

triangles.

■ If It «

This la a fine dlah for

luncheon o

ABBRrrUTBD BTATMJ-* 1.R1D-R l. t.CAl.U-CAL. *.D ntL. 4. FLAr-FLA. 4 OAT-* 6 LAO LA. 7. MFW-JfB. 8. MOW THREE - LETTER CHAIN—HR, RED. DOO. YEt. BAD. DEN. NIP. PCT. i

OAF. TIR.

THE BONT^A BVVNINQ POX. (Bnltr upper le/f kaad eotagrj

Too can Look At Its Korctorad And ’Ml TVval It Has No

IwllUng to sneak Into some or.a'a ( wrong., the sparrow children, end

nuraery. placa har baby In lh» crib treats them as It they were the baaldaa Ita rightful owner, and thro I vary dirt under their feat. If It slip away tefora any one saw her? ho, not all lha room It wanto In the Leaving aoma aUangar to lead and : Mti j, wni woji Itself down under car# for her baby, while eh* we°f , young sparrow, and than by gallivanting around cara-frae and JnropUlJ up ymcgi,

ti

about th# houaa. and bundle th*|groun.

poor mtle thing! off to aChool. befor# they era old enough. Juat

•tu,.'" .ibo.. n..„, .1 u,

. - scruxublaB on tbalr back,

.trhlng and | and grata he worm befor* they

>f hunger. If

•n*' the *W1 doe# nol km It. And whan lha sparrow mother

brltMe a worm t

Thai to pretty much tha way It to I cowblrd

with tha cowblrd—It does n I to be bothered wttb f

! feeding th<

itsnea J other bird

o wny n

Which ri># j grafter <

[can reach It. The gieedy yo«ng

V i.U can pain

YKLLOW at llllAV t use

(To he colored wifA povnls o- oroyom. U’Acnecrr you coma to a u-ord

•pilled In CAPITAL letters BJ< fhal cotor.J

paint Gold. Ireks' hair | tUaa RED lightly). The graaa I* . dark BROWN, id her long cap*! GREEN and the atone pat!, that are RED and tt BLACK lightly) i Oolfillocka Walk, on la GRAY. | BLUR with <

.an be colorwd Bgnt'

s dlnlag-

tahbr ) lind fiowerk.

(-Tba (flpaulshj

l»-Fcon. 1 tbalr

care the anap of , YELLOW with bamu of ORANGE Goldilocks li

"mil proceeds to do When I a nngac whether the other* gat a * color Oise RED and TELLOW room of the three t-«»rv • thBlMT-'*’ lu b Uttar !11 ea ■ mouthful not, Jual ao It can koap ; mfxad). Ralqt bar ahoog BLACK i remember Th* wall U papered

5?" _« ..rr-t-s- *lt« own atomach — *

hi"

out-of-doors :

bird* are busy alnglnc j sparrow Uablea often have to 1 BLUB and tha vine that grows a. j at lha wind . songs and building neat., i go to .leap hungry, when the cow- I lha door la BRuWN and twisty >ht woodw. rblrd gova anaaku* and bird to full to lha popptaff point, i with OKEEN laava# and FINK ! about tha :

YELLOW.